The Basics of Using Psychophysiology and Biofeedback to Assess and Treat Chronic Pain

This basic level (PEP044) 10 credit hour CE course is designed to teach professionals how to incorporate biofeedback and psychophysiological assessment for chronic pain into their practices depending on their scopes of practice.

$250.00

Instructor

Dr. Richard Sherman

  • The course provides sufficient material so participants will know (a) what the common biofeedback assessments and interventions are as well as how they work, (b) how the recording devices work in a clinical setting, (c) how to perform an effective recording, and (d) how to perform effective psychophysiological assessments and interventions.  It is the objective of this course to provide you with the information you need to understand the underlying problems, be able to perform a reasonable assessment of patients with chronic pain, recognize when pain is not being appropriately or adequately ameliorated, and to be able to make or recommend interventions consistent with your clinical skills.

  • 1. Describe the physiology, biochemistry, and psychology underlying pain mechanisms.

    2. Demonstrate through presentations sufficient knowledge about how pain mechanisms work to apply the knowledge to your evaluative and therapeutic interventions.

    3.  Describe how you will keep abreast of current knowledge about pain syndromes and their assessment and interventions. 

    4. Identify and explain the strengths and weaknesses of evidence supporting the efficacy of self-regulatory interventions for prevention and reduction of various pain problems.

    5. Provide extensive examples of how to perform evaluations and non-pharmacological interventions for the pain-based problems discussed in this course.

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  • This course is only available to people who already took the Behavioral Medicine R&T Foundation’s course in basic biofeedback or its full academic level biofeedback course.

  • Sherman, R. (2024) Psychophysiological Assessment and Intervention for Chronic Pain.  ISBN: 979-8-218-40545-8 Behavioral Medicine R&T Foundation, Washington, USA. $100. The PDF version is available at https://payhip.com/b/MLlOZ. For a print or Kindle version, go to Amazon and search under the book’s name or ISBN.

  • 10 credit hours.

    The Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Behavioral Medicine R&T Foundation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

  • There is one year to complete the course.

    No refunds are issued after the course purchase and course materials have been received.

Course Introduction Video

  • Testimonial

    “The course material is covered very clearly through lectures and also provides extra references to expand more deeply into the topic of study.”

    Lorena Casado Román